Hi Harry, For skipping ads, I use chrome with the YouTube Options extension. This extension allows you to set those options and thus all videos you watch have the ads stripped out.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-05-19, at 10:47 PM, Harry Hogue <harryhog...@gmail.com> wrote: > How did you discover these controls, by the way? I stumbled on them by > mistake because I pressed the wrong key. > > And no, it has nothing to do with keeping you from skipping ads, as visually > you are able to skip ads after five seconds for the majority of the ads. > > Harry > > On May 19, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Candie Stiles <candiesti...@me.com> wrote: > >> Yes I have the same difficulty. I'm wondering if this was done intentionally >> so you couldn't skip over the adds. The controls work find in the video >> itself but don't do anything when the adds are playing. >> On May 19, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Harry Hogue <harryhog...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Does anyone else have problems skipping YouTube ads when using youtube.com >>> on the Mac? It works great on IOS, but with the regular website on the >>> Mac, although I can go back in the video with J, play/pause with K, and >>> fast forward with L, I don't know how to skip an ad at the beginning. Is >>> it because it is embedded into a javascript or something like that? >>> >>> Also, does anyone know how to view the subtitles or other text included >>> with a YouTube video? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Harry >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
